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New Moons
A team of astronomers using the Subaru telescope on Maunakea has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This brings the ringed planet’s total number of moons to 82, which officially surpasses Jupiter (79 moons).
November 12, 2019
A team of astronomers have developed a new method for measuring the Hubble Constant – the expansion rate of the universe. Using W. M. Keck Observatory’s […]
November 4, 2019
A team of astronomers have used the combination of the Subaru and Gemini telescopes on Maunakea to get a more detailed view than ever before, of […]
October 23, 2019
The nearest large galaxy to us – the Andromeda Galaxy – is a good place to study the history of galaxies like our own Milky Way, […]
October 8, 2019
A team of astronomers using the Subaru telescope on Maunakea has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This brings the ringed planet’s total number of moons […]
October 8, 2019
An international group of scientists has used observations from the Subaru and Keck telescopes on Maunakea to observe enormous filaments of gas in the early Universe, […]
September 27, 2019
An international team of astronomers using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini telescopes on Maunakea have found the oldest collection of galaxies in our Universe. They discovered […]
September 27, 2019
The discovery of planets orbiting other stars has changed the view of our place in the Universe. Space missions like NASA’s Kepler/K2 Space Telescope and the […]
September 26, 2019
In Memory of Barry Taniguchi: A Community Leader and Friend of Science, Education and Hawaii’s Keiki
The Maunakea Observatories wish to convey their heartfelt sorrow for the loss of a treasured member of our Hawai‘i Island community with the recent passing of […]
September 20, 2019
Former Gemini astronomer Chad Trujillo along with Scott Sheppard were recipients of the 2019 Farinella Prize awarded on September 16th in Geneva, Switzerland for their outstanding […]